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From: mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon)
Subject: Re: "Journey" and genre identity (or ripping off)
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960429104222.27213A-100000@xp.psych.nyu.edu>,
Roger Giner-Sorolla  <giner@xp.psych.nyu.edu> wrote:

[discussion of fantasy genre and its subgenres deleted]

>For example, Path to
>Fortune might be a terrific game, but one of the things that turned me off
>to it was the way the dialogue mangled archaic English grammar ("Thou
>musteth", etc.)

This comment strikes me as evidence of ironic impairment. The character
who speaks that way does so because of *his* ignorance of correct usage.
That, as you apparently did not observe, is one of the characteristics 
that makes him part of the comic relief of _Path to Fortune_.

[unnecessarily patronizing discussion of archaic grammar deleted]

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